For a good chunk of the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin, renowned polymath and one of the nation's founding fathers, ...

And if any American icon needs more spotlight, it's Benjamin Franklin given the number of Americans who think he's on the $100 bill because he was a former president.

In France, in Paris, it was the salons where ... I would like to have Benjamin Franklin as a panelist on Think Tank. MR. BRAND: Invite me back if you do— MR. WATTENBERG: (Laughter.) ...

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin. In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to Congress, arguing it was in America's ...

(Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin Franklin, then a humble Philadelphia printer ...

Our commitment has been a demonstration of our support for freedom and democracy and a striking reflection of our own history ...

emerged as a potent symbol in 18th-century America and France Greg Daugherty Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels ...